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About the Role
The Office of Labor Relations (OLR) represents the Mayor in labor relations between the City of New York and its employees' unions. The Commissioner acts as the City's liaison with labor and management in the private sector. OLR administers various employee benefit programs and negotiates collective bargaining agreements. The Office of the General Counsel (OGC) provides legal support and advice agency-wide, representing the city in administrative proceedings and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements for employee benefits.
Responsibilities
- Representing the city in administrative proceedings, including arbitrations pursuant to collective bargaining agreements and improper practice claims before the Office of Collective Bargaining (OCB)
- Researching and drafting legal documents, including briefs, agreements (e.g., MOUs, contracts, side letters), and Memoranda
- Reviewing agency communications prior to their release
- Gaining a command of the collective bargaining law and familiarizing themselves with the unions that the agency engages with during labor negotiations
- Preparing briefing documents for a variety of audiences, including decisionmakers and non-attorneys
- Handling FOIL assignments under the supervision of the Agency Privacy Officer (APO)
- Helping to develop contract templates and guidance for the agency’s programs
- Liaising with the Law Department as needed (e.g., discovery requests)
- Assisting in the development of processes and systems for efficient management of the legal team’s workstreams, cases, and communications
- Other duties as needed
Requirements
- Graduation from an American Bar Association approved law school
Skills
- Highly organized
- Detail-oriented
- Flexible
- Ability to work well with a variety of personalities and entities
- Solutions oriented
- Eager to learn
- Problem solver
- Ability to work both collaboratively and independently without close supervision
- Patience
- Sound judgment
- Creativity
- Good sense of humor
Location
- New York City
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Deputy Assistant Counsel
Education Level
- Juris Doctor (JD) from an ABA-approved law school
Salary/Compensations
- USD 75992 - USD 108786
About the Company
- The Office of Labor Relations (OLR) represents the Mayor in the conduct of all labor relations between the City of New York and labor unions representing employees of the City.
- The Commissioner serves on behalf of the Mayor as the City’s liaison with both labor and management in the private sector.
- The office is authorized by Executive Order 38 (February 7, 1967), amended by Executive Order 13 (July 24, 1990).
- Additionally, OLR administers the Health Benefits Program, Management Benefits Fund, Employee Assistance Program, Work Well NYC, Medicare Part B Reimbursement and Pre-Tax Benefits & Citywide Programs including the Deferred Compensation Plan and NYCE IRA.
- In addition to negotiating collective bargaining agreements, OLR serves as a resource to agencies with regard to workforce labor issues and works with the Municipal Labor Committee (MLC) to pursue innovations in a variety of areas, particularly regarding City health insurance programs.
- The staff at OLR assist their fellow agencies in handling personnel and payroll issues, conducting labor-management meetings, representing the City at representation hearings, and handling all employee grievances and arbitration matters while also negotiating collective bargaining agreements with the City's 149 bargaining units.
- Office of the General Counsel (OGC): Under the supervision of the General Counsel, OGC serves as the agency’s legal counsel, providing legal support and advice agency-wide on the wide range of issues that arise at the agency given the breadth of its portfolio.
- In addition to advising on collective bargaining and labor relations, the legal team attorneys represent the city before the Office of Collective Bargaining (OCB) in administrative proceedings, including arbitrations, and serve as neutrals during Step III grievance proceedings.
- The legal team is also responsible for contracts administration across the various procurements held by OLR’s administered programs.
- Further, OGC is responsible for ensuring compliance with the various regulatory requirements that set the legal framework for the employee benefits programs that serve the city’s approximately 300,000 employees and city retirees and their dependents.
- Lastly, the legal team liaises with the Law Department on litigation, discovery, and is responsible for FOIL, privacy, and the other day-to-day legal matters that arise for an agency’s in-house counsel team.
Equal Opportunity
- The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.